Starvation Heights : the chilling true story of the doctor who starved her patients to death
Olsen, Gregg2023
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In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire, and Dora Williamson, arrived at an unfinished sanitorium in the forests of Olalla, Washington to undergo the revolutionary 'fasting treatment' of Doctor Linda Burfield Hazzard. It was supposed to be a holiday for the two sisters, but within a month of arriving at what the locals called 'Starvation Heights', the women underwent brutal, evasive procedures and became emaciated shadows of their former selves. How did Hazzard persuade the sisters to undergo such monstrous treatments? And why, on Claire's deathbed, did Dora, near to death herself, still hold such an extreme belief in Hazzard's methods? In this chilling true story of deception and murder, Gregg Olsen brings us inside the disturbing world of Hazzard who would stop at nothing to achieve her dream of creating the most renowned sanatorium in the world.
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London : Thread, 2023.London : Thread, 2023.
Collation:
544 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781804190685 (pbk)
Dewey class:
364.1523
Language:
English
Subject:
Hazzard, Linda Burfield, 1868-1938Murder -- Washington (State) -- Olalla -- History -- 20th centuryMedical personnel -- Malpractice -- Washington (State) -- Olalla -- History -- 20th centuryStarvationFasting -- Washington (State) -- Olalla -- History -- 20th centuryTrue CrimeBiography: generalBiography: historical, political & militaryBiography: science, technology & medicineTrue crimePopular beliefs & controversial knowledge
BRN:
2733162